A contraception debate is gripping one of Argentina's most notable luxury neighbourhoods – not for its wealthy residents, but for its original occupants, the capybaras.

In recent years, the lovable rodents have been accused of overrunning the Nordelta, a meticulously landscaped and manicured suburb north of Buenos Aires.

Now, in a bid to quell reproduction – some accounts suggest the number of capybaras has tripled to more than 1,000 in the past three years – the Buenos Aires government has approved wildlife population control plans, involving selective sterilisation and contraceptives.

Marcelo Cantón, a resident and spokesperson for the Nordelta Neighborhood Association, says that while capybaras themselves are not a problem, the "excessive growth" of their populations is, adding that it is causing the creatures to "fight among themselves, fight with dogs in private gardens", leading to traffic accidents.

"Capybaras have more than 500 hectares of lakes and public parks here, with no predators, no hunters to catch them for slaughter," he says. "There are none of the limits to population growth that exist elsewhere."

According to El País, the new plans would see two doses of contraceptives injected into 250 of the rodents, known locally as carpinchos, which authorities hope will stem reproduction for up to a year.

But not all neighbours are in agreement. The Nordelta sits within the Paraná Delta, an environmentally important wetland home to dense flora, an abundance of birds and dozens of species of mammals.

Silvia Soto and a group of neighbours known as "Nordelta Capybaras – We Are Your Voice" say the plans should be halted, dispute that there is an overpopulation problem and criticise property developers for ignoring proposals to create biological corridors and protected areas.

"For years, we have been asking for different, linked green areas that function as natural reserves connected by biological corridors, to protect the capybaras and preserve their survival and coexistence in their own natural space," Soto said, adding that the group's surveys had "not been taken into account".

Environmentalists are also now weighing in and calling on the government to protect the capybaras, which are the world's largest rodent, and the wetlands.

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Biden was great, so many people will not see the impact he had. I'll say this, the best government is the one that helps just enough, and generally stays out of the way. Trump sure isn't doing this. (-18)

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for what? this motherlover is going to be looked at less favorably than james buchanan for the immediate consequences of his presidency (180)

Wrong. Biden did A LOT of awesome shit. (-24)

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He must really think his supporters for r-slurs.

Either he doesn't understand COBOL and the fact that 1875 is the default year, when the International Bureau of Weights and Measures was established. If there's an unknown or missing value, it starts from there, 150 years.

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A Reddit post of a 23 tweet long Xitter thread about how President Elon Muskrat (PBUH) is stealing elections all over the world (don't worry, I didn't read it either) has turned people who believe reality has a liberal bias into tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists Seriously, though, this subreddit has been getting more and more unhinged with each passing day. Even a few weeks ago, a post like this would have mostly been laughed off. Here are some of the funnier schizoposts in the thread:

I signed off of X when Canadian annexation was the big topic and people were outright calling for our conquest and to have our rights stripped away.

I feel like it's time for us and the EU to ban that shitass website. It's bullshit that the Trump Administration is threatening us with pulling out of NATO if we make the decision that his cronies propaganda site needs to go.

How dare America demand its allies support American interests like free speech! Things were much better when America enforced values like censorship and homosexuality in Botswana!

This freedom of speech thing is a very manufactured issue. I'm not too concerned about it because we Europeans legitimately don't want the type of 'free speech' you have in the US. There are reasons (genocide and war crimes) why we have restriction on some types of speech. I don't think that Musk and Trump understand the average European who is generationally affected by wars, unlike the US. There are collective memories that we have that Americans just don't have

Europeans have collective memories just like in my heckin Avatar movie!! Americans just don't get it!

Also, freedom of speech is a manufactured issue The European mind simply cannot comprehend anything other than censorship.

This is, in part, why I quit twitter

I genuinely have no idea how you can fight a mfr that owns the platform you're fighting on, besides burning it to the ground and making it irrelevant

Have these people ever tried simply being more interesting and influential? Maybe if they keep complaining on Reddit they will change hearts and minds!

Bros I think I'm tapping out, every single day my country self harms to the cheers and praise of cultist freaks. I just can't handle it anymore, I'm going to go touch grass and live in ignorance.

Another one bites the dust! Would be a good decision if he wasn't going to log off for a few hours then immediately come back.

I want to tune out but Im terminally addicted to my phone and the news, I need to go cold turkey

There will be massive election interference on Twitter as the German elections on Sunday approach.

There is absolutely 0 reason why the current ruling party would be ousted other than election interference… absolutely none…

can we get some eu social media replacements for once

Europe is a creatively dead and stagnant continent. This will never happen.

Librals are so fricking bad at social media and conspiracies. 23 screenshots and each has 1 paragraph.

Epic redditor moment when reality is too complicated to fit into a snappy meme with some wojaks for those with severe attention deficit.

Rdramabros… I don't like the way he just called me out like that…

Stay tuned for more because these people are only going to get more delusional by the day.

Dude bankrupted his entire town. He even drained his daughter's college fund.

Got here from an RSP post history:

also feels like the old internet.

hopefully there will be a trend of small niche websites that takes us back to the web before the giant social media websites took over

I wanna be the semi r-slurred midwit bf to an intellectual queen

I love her my special lil gal. She has begun giving more nose-kisses daily than Socks ever has the whole time I've rehabilitated that brown piece of flabby tabby they are going to fight so stupidly over sleeping with me once Sheila's fixed. We are close to the savings mark for her spay

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The Woke and DEI ANALytics are HERE!

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https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ijxhyj/iowa_eliminates_30day_eviction_notice_policy/mbhp9t1/?context=8

"There's that compassionate Christian conservatism and family values again."

Pure fricking evil

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1ijxhyj/iowa_eliminates_30day_eviction_notice_policy/mbht5lx/?context=8

THREE DAYS NOTICE!

In today's market, even a month can be tight to secure new housing and move all of your worldly possessions

Frick America (Iowa). Late capitalist hellhole.

The Bwazilian teen whwo died after injecting himself with butterfwy remains repwortedwy suffered in agwony fwor a week befwore his death — which dwoctwors say may have been caused by an awwergic reaction or infection.

Davi Nyunyes Mworeira, 14, suffered excwuciating pain in a hwospitwl in Vitworia de Cwonquista fwor an entire week after admitting he mixed a dead butterfwy with water and injected the cwoncwoction intwo his leg, the DaiwyMawl repworted.

Authworities are investigating whether the teen, whwo had been thwowing up and limping befwore gwoing two the hwospital, was participating in a sick swociwl media chawwenge that caused his death.

Luiz Fernyandwo D. Relvas, a specialist at Hwospitwl Santa Marcelinya, speculated that Davi may have suffered fwom an embwowlism, an infection or an awwergic reaction, the outlet repworted, citing Bwazilian media.

The teen's mysterious death — linked two pwossible twoxins in the butterfwy mix that caused his bwody two shut dwown as he went intwo septic shwock — is making headlinyes acwoss Bwazil.

>the sting of the Mighty Mwonyarch!

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in its time as one of the deadest( but best) esports of all time, competitive tf2 has had numerous dramas, some funnier than others. most of these are libertarian drama. one notable one occurred back in 2016

b4nny

Grant "B4nny" Vincent is the most successful competitive tf2 player of all time, having at least 30 tournament wins, 4 international tournament wins and numerous other meaningless trophies for his collection since 2008, racking up over 28,000 hours in the game. (no seriously) He is notable for being perhaps the only tf2 player to have made a career from streaming and for his enormous ego, creating numerous moments of hilarity.

(there will be more.)

one of b4nny's most redeeming traits (at least in the past) remains his penchant for tweeting.

his tweet game was so prolific that there is a 15 page thread on the main competitive tf2 forum compiling people's favorites

https://www.teamfortress.tv/32408/favorite-b4nny-tweet

some of these have caused immense seethe.

some of my favourites include:

(ok, this one is pretty funny, hes making fun of someone for not going to lan because of school or something lol)

despite his mastermind X antics b4nny has had a rough relationship with the community through the years.

initially starting off well liked, something seemed to snap in b4nny's heart, turning it cold.

maybe this was when he got cucked by his teammate and continued to play with him after finding out because he loves winning that much. Maybe it was his own teammate leaving mid-playoffs match due to him insisting on swapping the team's roles around for some reason, causing his team to get upset, get 3rd place (up to this point b4nny hadnt been either 1st or second in the top division for 4 years!) and disband immediately after. This also happened again like 7 years later but thats a different story.

B4nny immediately rebuilt his team with new up and coming players (including some who would go on to play in theoverwatch league (lolll)

all was well in b4nny's camp. He had recently met his funding goal to attend the 2016 international lan hosted in some shithole in england idk lol

one fateful day, b4nny decided to beat his liver and stream drunk. Clearly intoxicated, b4nny streamed on. meanwhile an up and coming top european player by the name of thalash decided to do some trolling by insinuating that b4nny was getting carried by his now ex-teammate who had cucked him in the past. B4nny's ego, already more inflated than the hindenburg (RIp crodies) reached nuclear meltdown levels. how dare a player who has never gone to LAN talk down on me like this!

b4nny also has a bizarre half-joking hatred for european players, berating their playstyle constantly for being slow and boring (true)

these factors lead to b4nny going on a legendary drunken tangent raving about europeans, accolades and how thalash is the equivalent of what someone might call a plumber or taxi driver driver in the UFC.

the most notable part of this autism fueled rant is b4nny's legendary statement that he requests his new found foe utter when he loses to him on lan(0:33 seconds in video 1 :) )

im sorry im not good i apologize for my ego please forgive me, im just europeean.

uh oh!

this sparks huge drama in the community, with some pointing out that thalash was provoking an obviously deathly drunk b4nny while others laughed at his ego about an already small esport.

august 26, 2016

b4nny has arrived in europe with his team to smite the europeeans once and for all.

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at his sexiest, he is ready to take the win and prove why blumpfkenstiltskin needs to stop giving aid to twink european panhandlers.

can you guess what happens?

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b4nny loses, becoming a laughing stock and likely killing some hobo in retaliation (he lived in la).

b4nny later returns to his uncrushable winning ways, winning every single major tournament in NA until 2021 and eventually getting his getback on thalash in 2018 and 2019 at lan, one being in NA one being in ingerland.

b4nny still plays to this day. i think despite his insufferable ego, its quite impressive hes been able to dedicate himself to this without roping or moving on to another esport. hes clearly a talented team leader and team builder.

ill probably never post again on this site but theres so much funny drama from this esport holy shit lol